| George Henry Lewes - 1864 - 616 pagina’s
...conclusions dreading to face the consequences of doubt, will speak thus harshly and unworthily of it. There lives more faith in honest doubt. Believe me, than in half the creeds : * ERNEST RENAN : Essai$ de Morale, p. 138. He fought his doubts and gathered strength; He would not... | |
| 1866 - 246 pagina’s
...number of the Guardian observed that Tennyson never wrote such " nonsense" as the following : — " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds." I can only assure that uninformed critic that Tennyson not only wrote these " nonsensical" lines in... | |
| James Kendall Hosmer - 1865 - 340 pagina’s
...subtile question versed, Who touched a jarring lyre at first, But ever strove to make it true. Perplexed in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music...than in half the creeds. He fought his doubts and gathered strength ; lie would not make his judgment blind ; lie faced the spectres of the mind, And... | |
| Frances Power Cobbe - 1865 - 464 pagina’s
...absolute impartiality ! English scepticism in our time is mostly of that sort of which it may be said — There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. 25 It is honest, serious, and arises in most cases from the sincere interest taken in the subject.... | |
| Daniel Moore - 1865 - 218 pagina’s
...from which the two lines in the text are taken will bear quoting : "You tell me doubt is devil-born. I know not; one indeed I knew In many a subtle question versed, Who touched a jarring lyre at first, But ever strove to make it true: Perplext in faith, but not in deeds,... | |
| Holme Lee - 1865 - 278 pagina’s
..." In Memoriam," where the poet, speaking of one " perplext in faith but pure in deeds," says — " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds." The fretted shade of ancient trees lies on the mossy roof, and over the winding lane up to the village,... | |
| 1866 - 612 pagina’s
...ego prata pererro, Tu per inexpertos ire videris agros.' We give also part of No. xcv. p. 143 :— ' Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat...honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. And dwells not in the light alone, 'He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his... | |
| 1866 - 612 pagina’s
...ego prata pererro, Tu per inexpertos ire videris agros.' We give also part of No. xcv. p. 143 : — ' Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out, There lives more fuith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in kalf the creeds. And dwells not in the light alone, 'He... | |
| 1866 - 652 pagina’s
...little danger in the extent to which our literature extols doubt in these times. Our poet has sung — There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. And we keep ringing changes on this thought, till doubt appears to many a nobler thing than calm strong... | |
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